Tattoo Design Journal: A sketchbook with prompts to create tattoo designs and get the best tattoo for you

by Emma Grace Larkin

Overview

Design the perfect tattoo for you! A perfect gift for tattoo lovers, this gorgeous guided journal and sketchbook offers thoughtful prompts and plenty of blank space to hold all your tattoo design ideas and inspirations.

What kind of imagery would make the most meaningful tattoo for you? Use the prompts to recall your favorite places, cherished memories, beloved people or pets, symbols, equations, quotes, or works of art and then use the blank pages to sketch them as tattoos. This innovative guided journal by a noted tattoo artist will help you and your ink artist to create a tattoo (or more than one) that you will be proud to show off forever.
 
Also includes: 

* A brief history of tattooing
* Notes on the emotional and spiritual aspects of getting a tattoo
* Descriptions of the different styles of tattoos 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632173768
Publisher:	Spruce Books
Publication date:	11/09/2021
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	656,054
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

New York- and New Jersey-based tattoo artist and painter Emma Grace Larkin began her arts education with drawing lessons at the age of five, and completed her BA in Fine Arts at Brandeis University in 2011, with a minor in philosophy. She began tattooing at Cinar Arts in Istanbul in 2012. After six years in Istanbul, she moved back to the United States to continue her tattooing career at two prominent New York City studios, White Rabbit and Fleur Noire. Emma is the co-owner of Painted Soul Arts, a tattoo studio in Montclair, NJ. Emma's style focuses mainly on fine line and watercolor techniques combined with geometric and figurative elements. Recently she has broadened this approach to include more abstract and freehand compositions. She sees tattooing as an important way to understand, develop, and illustrate the self, and draws major inspiration from literature, philosophy, and fine arts.

Read an Excerpt

To be tattooed is to be both defined and mysterious. It is also to admit that we are works in progress. As beings who live and grow, we are in many ways defined by a constant striving to be better. Our scars, chosen or not,
are a record of our lives, our trials and tribulations, and what we have overcome to be who we are today. To alter the appearance of our own skin is an act of reclaiming agency over the bodies we occupy and their appearance to others. In an increasingly image-oriented world of digital mass-reproduction, to be tattooed is a small act of rebellion. It is one of the last frontiers of personal adventure—a celebration of risk and diversity, of living boldly and honestly.